epirange: Specify a range of days or weeks for API requests
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epirange

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Specify a range of days or weeks for API requests

Description

Specify a date range (in days or epiweeks) for an API request.

Usage

epirange(from, to)

Arguments

`from`	The first date to request. Can be specified as a `Date` or as an integer or integer-like string in the format YYYYMMDD for dates or YYYYWW for epiweeks.
`to`	The final date to request (inclusive), specified the same way as `from`.

Details

Epiweeks, also known as MMWR weeks number the weeks of the year from 1 to 53, each week spanning from Sunday to Saturday. The numbering is defined by the CDC.

Value

An EpiRange object.

Examples

# Represents 2021-01-01 to 2021-01-07, inclusive
epirange(20210101, 20210107)

# The same, but using Date objects
epirange(as.Date("2021-01-01"), as.Date("2021-01-07"))

# Represents epiweeks 2 through 4 of 2022, inclusive
epirange(202202, 202204)

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